The earth shook, the booms reverberated in my chest, the building was obliterated in four seconds flat in a cloud of dust.
The building implosion this morning at 8:00 am was far more exciting than I thought it would be.
We left at 7:00 am and got within 200 yards of the building......front row viewing! Large crowds of people started assembling......the excitement grew with each new person that arrived.
A helicopter was circling overhead and there were police cars and ambulances everywhere.
At five minutes before eight all of the sirens started going off and the workers ran over to where we were standing. At exactly 8:00 we heard the first of the booms.......nothing happened and then all of a sudden the middle of the building caved in and then the sides followed.
The cloud of dust looked just like the 9-11 disaster.......it was eerily similar in a startling way.
When it was over everyone started clapping and yelling and saying, "That was awesome."
It was.....I'm glad we saw it in person. We may never see it again, but will always remember the fun and excitement of this particular Saturday morning in December.
Bubba said, "Let's go before we get overcome by that dust cloud." We did....we weren't.
McDonaldson's hosted us for breakfast afterwards. They put egg and cheese on my biscuit again....they just can't get it right.
Please go back to yesterday's blog, "in the fulness of time." I claified an important point on Jesus being born under the law and keeping it for us.
1 comment:
Only got to see it on tv, I know it must have been awesome in person.
We had a great aunt who lived in there when it first opened. Laura Barbee Bradshaw.....she said she did not want to live any higher than the 10th floor because that was as high as the fire truck could reach with a ladder at that time. She loved it there and had flowers on her balcony that she was always tending, you could see her out
there on the balcony when you
passed.
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